Editorial Policies

Focus and Scope

The journal publishes short communications, full research papers and review articles in all branches of chemistry. All manuscripts are subjected to a rigorous peer review process by the Scientific Editors.

Section Policies

Articles

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

Organic Chemistry

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Editors

Leigh-Anne Fraser

Gert Kruger

Tricia Naicker

Willem Van Otterlo

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

Inorganic Chemistry

Editors

Daniela Bezuidenhout

Abdul Mahomed

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

Physical Chemistry

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Editors

Jeanette Conradie

Bice Martincigh

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

Analytical Chemistry

Editors

Priscilla Baker

Luke Chimuka

Marc Humphries

Hlanganani Tutu

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

Chemical Education

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Editors

Bette Davidowitz

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

Computational Chemistry

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Editors

Jeanette Conradie

Gerhard Venter

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

Material Science and Nanotechnology

Editors

Roy Forbes

Patrick Ndungu

Neerish Revaprasadu

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

Peer Review Process

All publications will be reviewed by at least two referees that are active researchers in the field of study. Authors are responsible for nominating at least three suitable referees, that are not closely related to the authors.

The editor will normally base the final decision on the less favorable referee report, unless the report is not scientifically sound.

Publication Frequency

Archiving

This journal utilizes the LOCKSS system to create a distributed archiving system among participating libraries and permits those libraries to create permanent archives of the journal for purposes of preservation and restoration. More...

About the journal

The South African Journal of Chemistry, published by the South African Chemical Institute, has been publishing high quality papers, in all fields of Chemistry since 1918. The Journal went fully electronic in 2000. It is open access and freely available online.

SAJChem applies the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license to manuscripts we publish. This license was developed to facilitate open access – namely, free immediate access to, and unrestricted reuse of, original works of all types. Under this license, authors agree to make articles legally available for reuse, without permission or fees, for virtually any purpose. Anyone may copy, distribute or reuse these articles, as long as the author and original source are properly cited. Additionally, the journal platform that SAJChem uses to publish research articles is Open Access. We are registered with the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) and Scientific Library Online (Scielo).

It is a CAS-abstracted publication and is listed in Current Web Contents, Web of Knowledge, etc. It is an accredited publication with the South African Department of Higher Education and Training.

ORCIDs: From April 2017, published manuscripts will be linked to the ORCIDs of the authors. We are also working towards rewarding referees via the ORCID system for review work performed.